Tuesdays

Wednesdays

Thursdays

Main Library | 8:30am-10am

Alvar Library | 5:30pm–7:00pm

Saturdays

Rosa Keller Library | 10:30am–12pm

Hubbell Library | 2:00pm–3:30pm

Please DO NOT drop off your compost outside of the days and hours specified above. Doing so jeopardizes our partnership with New Orleans Public Library which allows us to host our free collections. Thank you!

NO MEAT, NO DAIRY, NO OILY FOODS, NO BONES.

Why frozen? The agreement with the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) is that scraps must be frozen, to avoid potential smells, roaches and rodents at the library. Also, freezing your scraps means no smell, fruit flies, roaches or rodents for you at home PLUS freezing breaks down the cell membrane, speeding up the decomposition process.

“The idea is to keep community resources in the community.”

Lynne Serpe | Founder

Mission

Compost NOW is a free residential food waste collection project in New Orleans. Master Composter Lynne Serpe and our team of volunteers partner with the New Orleans Public Library to build on the community library model of reuse and resource sharing in a place that's convenient to everyone, across all demographics and ages. It is based of of the model Lynne started and ran with the Queens Library system—which is still ongoing years later.

Founded in January 2017, our ultimate goal is to build a network of community composters in every neighborhood in New Orleans, collectively diverting tons of food waste from the landfill each month. In 2019, we hope to divert 100,000 pounds of food waste from the landfill to local farms and compost centers.